Strip For Murder
Berkley Pub Group
April 2, 2008
ISBN-13: 0425221393
Available in: Trade Size
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Strip For Murder
by Max Allan Collins
Manhattan, 1953. Hal Rapp's Tall Paul, one of America's most popular comic strips, is now a Broadway musical, infuriating Rapp's longtime rival Sam Fizer, creator of the once-beloved boxing strip Mug O'Malley. Adding insult to injury is the casting of Misty Winters, Fizer's wife, as one of Rapp's hillbilly gals sashaying across the Great White Way. Then Fizer is found dead, his apparent suicide actually an obvious homicide—with all evidence pointing to Rapp.
Starr Syndicate has distribution deals with both cartoonists, which added fuel to the fire between them, but Jack and Maggie believe Rapp's been framed. Between loan sharks, jealous husbands, bitter artists, and Fizer's widow—who has taken a romantic interest in Jack—there are more colorful characters with murderous motives than in a month of Sunday funnies...
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Max Allan Collins' Bio
Max Allan Collins is the author of the New York Times bestseller Saving Private Ryan. He is also the author of the Nathan Heller historical detective series, four novels about Eliot Ness and a number of true- crime novels. A multiple Shamus award-winner, an Edgar® nominee, and an award-winning screenwriter, Collins wrote the syndicated comic strip "Dick Tracy" from 1977 through 1993. He lives in Iowa, where he is also an accomplished filmmaker.